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The JFK/OWS Connection
You catch that thing on Friday where the New York Times brought together an Occupy Wall Street protester and a Wall Street broker to discuss the issues? (For the purposes of this post let's pretend that you did.) Well, if the protester seemed a little familiar (again, just go with it), there's a good reason: he's the guy who jumped the baggage carousel at JFK at the beginning of the year. We chatted with him back in February. Small world!
Normally I'm not so big on the "Corporate media is out to destroy the protestors and protect their Wall Street overseers" argument – particularly given the ideological predilections of my journalist friends – but the NYT really could not have picked a pair of subjects that more embodied the tea party's fever dream of the Occupy Wall Street protests: ordinary guy from Brooklyn who provides for his wife and young kids by working 13 hours a day as a broker, vs. barefoot trustafarian child of left-coast lawyers who can afford to rent in Manhattan without an apparent job.
Next time can they pair a hard-working recently laid off teacher supporting a disabled vet husband with a French Goldman Sachs trader who drives a Ferrari and doesn't know who at Scores gave him gonorrhea? That only seems fair.
@Astigmatism This thing.
So this is Ted Hall, representative of Occupy Wall Street, on the record? "The NYPD was very respectful toward me. My experience with the police was ideal. I felt like they were looking out for me. Incredible, awesome people."
The times, they are a'changin, indeed.
I thought his name was Bard.